Jay Hasegawa is an Analyst at Ocean Park Advisors. Jay’s professional experience includes capital raise and M&A transactions across various industries, including technology, healthcare, and consumer product. Prior to joining Ocean Park, Jay was an Investment Banking Analyst at Objective Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm based in San Diego. Before that, Jay worked at Century Park Capital Partners, a Los Angeles based private equity firm, where he assisted in deal origination and qualification. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Southern California.

Suresh Varadarajan is a Managing Director of Ocean Park. He has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience in the U.S. and Europe and has advised on a wide range of buy- and sell-side M&A assignments, including public, private and cross-border transactions. Suresh’s focus for the majority of his career has been on the food and beverage, agribusiness and consumer products industries. He will continue to work in this capacity at Ocean Park.

Prior to joining Ocean Park, Suresh was a Managing Director at Rabobank International in the New York M&A team where he led advisory projects across a number of food, beverage and agribusiness sectors. Previously, he was a Director at Rothschild Inc. in the M&A Group in New York within the global food and consumer industry team. Suresh also spent a number of years at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in corporate finance in both New York and London. He started his career as a valuation analyst at Deloitte & Touche.

Suresh received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. He is a Registered Investment Banking Representative (Series 79) and a Registered Securities Representative (Series 7 and 63) through FINRA.

Frank Kim is a Vice President at Ocean Park and has over 12 years of investment banking and corporate development experience across the renewable energy, food, agribusiness, and technology sectors. During his career at Ocean Park and previously with Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, Mr. Kim has executed over $2 billion in M&A transactions and in excess of $500 million in capital raises. Mr. Kim also has experience advising clients on multi-billion dollar engagements and multi-million dollar restructuring assignments. Previously, Mr. Kim was a Senior Manager at Silver Spring Networks, a smart energy grid platform provider, where he drove growth in sales operations worldwide. Mr. Kim received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Eric Ouyang is a Managing Director at Ocean Park Advisors and has 14 years of investment banking experience with over $50 billion of strategic advisory and financing transactions. His transaction experience includes numerous M&A and capital raising transactions in the biofuels, renewable energy and agribusiness sectors. Previously, Eric worked at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division, where he focused on financial sponsors, leveraged finance, financial institutions and financial technology. While at Goldman, he regularly executed multi-billion dollar M&A engagements as well as debt and equity capital raises for both domestic and international clients. Eric received his Bachelor’s Degree, cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

John Campbell is a Managing Director of Ocean Park and pioneer in the renewable fuels industry. He was previously responsible for building and operating the first commercial scale biodiesel plant in North America as a Senior Vice President with Ag Processing (AGP) – a $5 billion soybean processing cooperative. John had development and P&L responsibilities for ethanol, biodiesel, and bio-based industrial products at 4 plant sites totaling nearly 200 million gallons. Under Campbell’s leadership, AGP commercialized the first purpose-built biodiesel plant in North America and was the leading U.S. biodiesel producer during his 21 year tenure. In addition, John served as Deputy Undersecretary of Agriculture for President George H.W. Bush and was responsible for formation of the President’s 1990 Farm Bill proposal. He also served as a key staff member of the House Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee and the Senate Agriculture Committee, and was instrumental in creating and maintaining federal biofuels tax incentives, USDA biofuels and EPA Renewable Fuel Standard laws and regulations. John received his Bachelor’s Degree in Animal Science from the University of Nebraska and his post graduate Diploma from the University of Sydney, Australia in Agricultural Economics.

Mark Fisler is a Partner and Managing Director of Ocean Park. During the last several decades, Mark amassed significant senior leadership experience as an investment banker, a corporate financial advisor, a business executive and an owner. Mark was the CEO of a biofuels management company and President and COO of an ethanol production company. He has also served on numerous boards within the ag supply chain and biofuels industries. Over the last two decades, he has personally been involved in over twenty biofuels consulting mandates. During his eighteen-year tenure at Piper Jaffray, Mark managed the offering of over $10 billion in investment grade rated bond offerings and structured debt financings and led in excess of $500 million in private equity offerings for food, agribusiness and biofuels companies. Mark has appeared in numerous national conferences on agribusiness and biofuels and has had articles published several times in national periodicals. Mark received both a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, cum laude from the University of St. Thomas.

Bruce Comer is the founder and a Managing Director of Ocean Park. He has decades of experience advising boards, funds, owners and lenders on growth strategies, capital structures, acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings and operational issues. Prior to founding Ocean Park, he was a Principal at Platinum Equity, where he played a key role in raising the firm’s $700 million fund and actively managed the firm’s $4 billion revenue portfolio. He also previously served as the Chairman and CEO of Allegro Biodiesel, a publicly-traded company. Bruce has published articles in industry journals, and appeared at conferences and on CNBC to discuss renewable fuels. Bruce received his Bachelor’s Degree, cum laude, from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; a Master’s Degree with Distinction in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University; and an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School.